The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-07-08

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A s%piritualistic medium has settled at
Swedesboro.
Swcdcsboro's new bank has declared a
semi-annual dividend Of two per cent.
The new freight station being built at
Swedcsboro will be the largest on the line
below Camden.
Ebenezer Martin, a resident Of Deerfield
township, is SO years of age, yet has never
been in Bridgeton.
M. y. Dubois has bought the Clayton
shoe factory, and intends putting il in OPP
Grafton about July 18th.
Some of the Gloucester county farmers
say that their watermelon and sweet pota-
to patches never looked better.
Petitions asking Council to pass an or
dinance prohibiting the sale of beer by the
| saloons arc being circulated in Woodbury..
II is reported that some New York par
| ties have purchased a piece of land near
Pitman Grove and intend erecting a large
| boarding house and stables thereon.
Eugene Hill, whose home is near Finley,
Cumberland county, has been liberated
from the State Asylum, where he has been
confined. His mind is wholly restored.
j. II. Hancs, of Cape May, who sunk the
ldI8t NtII ~ LlIt listItbl Nttot WV PB ''N
been awarded the contract to dig a large
we'll for $500 at the Bridgeton water
works.
The firm manufacturing bricks at ltosen-
hayn, Cumberland county, is turning out
%, 900 II day. 1t is so rushed with demands
that it talks of putting on a night force
and doubling the product.
The committee from the Board of Free
~ l.. ...o.{a1 - build a hrlIpa nVaT'
Raceoon creek on the new road between
Swedesboro and Bridgeport, finding that
an iron structure wculd cost too much, has
awarded to John Pierson, for $fl0O, the
contract for a wooden bridge.
The West Jersey railroad last week pur-
chased ten acres of ground near the south
ern edge of Woodbury., along its tracks,
and will remove thereto its r~ound-honsc,
turn-table, freight house, and lay side
tracks for the accommodation of its con-
stantly increasing business at that point.
Woolwich township farmers are turning
from sweet potatoes and are raising early
potatoes and tomatoes. Hundreds of bar
rels of carly white potatoes have already
been sent away from Swodesboro, whlje
active preparations are being made Tor
shipping tomatoes. One dealer has l4,oOo
crates ready for the farmeEs
Harding pond, at Clayton, which has re-
Gently been purchased by John Nj. Moore,
the glass manufacturer is to be improved
by being denuded of the stumps which
now disiieure it. and il will be turned into
a lake for boating and other pleasures.
The citizens have volunteered to contrib
ute their labor for the removal OF the
stumps, and the new owner will do an
equal amount of WORK. A carriage drive
around the pond is contemplated.
A claimant has turned up, in the person
of John Seeds, of Woodbury., but formerly
a resident of Cumberland county, near
Vincland, to Pltman Grove, the popular
Methodist Camp Meeting resort. lie claims
to have lately come into the possession OF
old deeds, showing that this tract of land
belonged to Joseph Seeds, his grandfather,
and that the legal title was never conveyed
to any one else by him or his heirs. Tn
Pitman Grove Association purchased the
land of Wesley Jessnp and Joseph Jessup.
Mr.. Seeds, however at this late day, IS not
very confident of getting possession OF the
property, though he intimates some Efforts
in that direction, but it is an undertaking
beset with SO many difficulties and requir-
ing the expenditure of so much money,
that the hope of success is not very cheer
ing.